Load up on coins, bring your friends; tastes like team spirit

Charlie Brown looked at Linus carrying his contorted cat upside down looking placidly peaceful and said, “They finally made the boneless cat.” But don’t go looking for boneless wings at the Friday night concession stand because Kickin’ Chicken Charlie Pollard – your friendly neighborhood wing man - has been bounced like a stale dinner roll. The Cape football boosters teamed up in a great compromise with the junior class for the 2010 season and beginning Friday, Sept. 24, will offer homemade meatball and sausage and pepper sandwiches from Annabella’s of Lewes. They will also be serving fresh Hickman’s Meat Market hamburgers and hotdogs. Grotto Pizza will also be in the house. There is also an Annabella’s cupcake fundraiser, which doesn’t sound too menacing for football. Come out and purchase some of the biggest and most delicious cupcakes decorated with lots of Cape team spirit, and yes, it does seem a shame to eat them rather than spraying them with varnish. Fans are encouraged to come out early and chew the fat with friends.

I know who I’m not! - Karl Saliba, local Lewes royalty now Washington lobbyist, sent me a text about being shut out of the closed Dogfish Dash this Sunday and asked if I had any juice. I told him not to worry, sent a text to race director Tim Bamforth and “told him” to put Saliba in the race free of charge. Tim bounced back to me and said he wasn’t doing registration and there was a deep waiting list and both Karl and I agreed it would be wrong to attempt to circumvent a list only to find out we couldn’t, then look really stupid. I enjoy the “you ain’t nobody” periodic wake-up call. That and bad feet keep me grounded.

Lunar tune - Maddie Meade stared out at the stroke line protecting a 1-0 Cape second-half lead ready for a Delmar penalty stroke. Just the word “stroke” sounds serious. A huge advantage to the shooter with the goalie encumbered in that lunar gravity protective moonwalking suit. The shot went high to the shooter’s left, Maddie went right paw for the smackdown. It was way cool just like her, an athlete with a sweet disposition, an easy smile and the quick hands of a street-corner magician.

Tantrum time - If you are past puberty and flip out when things don’t go your way, you are exhibiting regressive behavior better suited for a toddler. Toddler tantrums are tactical; they know adults will eventually cave in and give them what they want just to shut them up. “Here, you little savage; eat the entire box of animal crackers - hippos, rhinos the entire boatload of life forms and eat the ark too and Noah, his wife and anyone who comes out of the box, just please shut up!” Two Cape soccer players and a parent went post-game ballistic after a 1-0 loss to Seaford, the players ripping off and tossing their jerseys, the parent lamenting their lividness and quite frankly it was lame-brained and shameful and reflected badly on all the athletes who played hard then suffered disappointment in quiet dignity and sportsmanship. You behave badly inside the public arena and you get called on it.

Gift horse - Last Saturday at the ALS walk in Rehoboth Mikey DeStasio gave me (Grandpa Fredman) an autographed by Greg Luzinski Phillies hat he had won at the Larry O’Rourke ALS golf tournament in Allentown. Larry is my wife’s cousin. Then on Tuesday at the field hockey game, Dan Cook gave me a picture pin of my granddaughter Anna. Later, Lori Voss handed me a double-X Air Force Falcon Pride shirt where her son Tim goes to school. I must look like a needy clothes horse or just a big body on which to hang stuff.

Snippets - I would like to know if Kevin Kolb has a dog. I am all for second chances; I just don’t trust “the dog guy” to have my back and be the face of my football team. Then again, I don’t trust Ray Lewis either, but he’s a totally different cat - pun intended. Temple is at Penn State on Saturday and the game is no longer a laugher, more like a giggle. Division Three colleges recruit athletes and work financial packages for them, but they do not give athletic scholarships. My rule is where the free and borrowed money ends is the starting number for the University of Delaware. See you at Del Tech. Go Roadrunners! Meep! Meep!